Fortunately, /proc/dasd/devices does the counting for you, in this case 94/232.
You just need to do the mknod's for major/minor 94/232-235.
I think that only /dev/dasda-z are pre-made. Anytning beyond that and you have
to do it yourself.
Steve Arden
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> William,
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> You need to create the appropriate /dev/dasdbg and /dev/dasdbg{1,2,3}
> entries. What the correct major/minor numbers would be for that, I have no
> idea. Perhaps someone else can help there.
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> Mark Post
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> While the SuSE 2.4 kernel was running I did a #CP LINK to get a new device
> on-line. I DASDFMTed it without problems. And I see it in
> /proc/dasd/devices. But I can't seem to get fdasd to work with the new
> devices. I get:
>
> usilfs13:~ # fdasd /dev/dasdbg
> fdasd error: device verification failed
> The specified device is not a valid DASD device
>
> What step have I forgotten?
>
> Additional info (trimmed to be compact):
>
>
> usilfs13:~ # cat /proc/dasd/devices
> 0200(ECKD) at ( 94: 0) is dasda:active at blocksize: 4096, 18000 blocks, 70
> MB
> 0201(ECKD) at ( 94: 4) is dasdb:active at blocksize: 4096, 582840 blocks,
> 2276 MB
> 023a(ECKD) at ( 94:232) is dasdbg:active at blocksize: 4096, 600840 blocks,
> 2347 MB
> usilfs13:~ # fdasd /dev/dasdbg
> fdasd error: device verification failed
> The specified device is not a valid DASD device
> usilfs13:~ # cat /etc/zipl.conf
> [defaultboot]
> default=ipl
>
> [ipl]
> target=/boot/zipl
> image=/boot/kernel/image
> #ramdisk=/boot/initrd
> parameters="dasd=0200-299 root=/dev/dasdb1 noinitrd"
>
> [dumptape]
> target=/boot
> dumpto=/dev/rtibm0
> usilfs13:~ #
>
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